This kind of Secret Storm technique inevitably flattens out the nuances and the pauses that give depth to the tangled personal relationships. It plows ahead, scene by scene, act by act, in which there always is first an establishing long shot and then cuts to individual actors as they act and react. Canby also mischaracterized the camera work, saying 'Lumet's way with this adaptation by Moura Budberg is implacably straightforward. In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby described the film as 'so uneven in style, mood and performance that there are times when you could swear that the movie had shot itself - though not quite fatally'.

Set Decoration - Rune Hjelm, Rolf Larsson.

Harry Andrews as Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin.

James Mason as Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin.

Their interactions slowly lead to the moral and spiritual disintegration of each of them and ultimately led to tragedy. Her son, brooding experimental playwright Konstantin Treplev, adores the ingenue Nina, who in turn is mesmerized by Trigorin.

Fading leading lady Irina Arkadina has come to visit her brother Sorin, a retired civil servant in ailing health, with her lover, the successful hack writer Trigorin. Set in a rural Russian house, the plot focuses on the romantic and artistic conflicts among an eclectic group of characters. The Warner Bros.-Seven Arts release was filmed at the Europa Studios in Sundbyberg, Stockholms län, just outside central Stockholm. The screenplay by Moura Budberg is adapted and translated from Anton Chekhov's classic 1896 play The Seagull. The Sea Gull is a 1968 British-American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet.

The seagull by anton chekhov